30 October 2008

1600-1620

In the grassy area cornered by the chicken fountain and library.

There are leaves everywhere! This is much, much different than California! The change of seasons will never stop amazing me! Since it rained all the leaves are falling much more rapidly than they would have with out the weight of rainwater. So now they  are everywhere. It is interesting to see the sidewalk covered with them or the grass with a red blanket covering them. It is also so odd to see that some of the leaves are red while some stayed yellow. I guess I always had this idea the leaves went yellow then red, but apparently not. This shows how naïve I am towards ‘real’ fallness. The other odd part of fall is that one the leaves are gone from trees it is almost sad to see the trees all-leafless. They are kind of like bare skeletons or like empty shells of what had been in the summer. It is also really interesting to see how it takes longer for some trees to change color and loose their leaves than other trees. I’m really interested to see in the spring the progression of the leaves coming back and blossoming into the green trees that I am used to.